BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --More than 350 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the war, according to Iraq's health minister.

While making the announcement Thursday, Iraqi Health Minister Umid Midhat Mubarak accused coalition fighters of targeting Iraqi civilians, saying "women and children are being attacked, as soldiers are being attacked."

"Most of these martyrs are children, women and old men who could not protect themselves as young men could," Mubarak told reporters at the Ministry of Information.

The Iraqi government has not released a definitive count of military deaths.

Mubarak also said Iraq is trying to get more accurate figures on the dead and the wounded. He said there have been about 4,000 civilian casualties -- including the dead and wounded.

At the United Nations on Wednesday, Iraq's U.N. ambassador, Mohammed Aldouri, told the Security Council "the Iraqi people are being subjected to a criminal and barbaric American-British military invasion" that has led to "thousands of casualties, among them women, children and the elderly."

From Baghdad, Iraqi officials said U.S. munitions killed 15 Iraqi civilians Wednesday at a popular market. (Full story)